Getting IT Together: A Longitudinal Look at Linking Girls' Interest in IT Careers to Lessons Taught in Middle School Camps

Autor/inn/en	Outlay, Christina N.; Platt, Alana J.; Conroy, Kacie
Titel	Getting IT Together: A Longitudinal Look at Linking Girls' Interest in IT Careers to Lessons Taught in Middle School Camps
Quelle	In: ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 17 (2017) 4, Artikel 20 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1946-6226
Schlagwörter	Females; Middle School Students; Information Technology; Computer Science Education; Student Attitudes; Intervention; Gender Differences; Summer Programs; Student Interests; Career Choice; Disproportionate Representation; Longitudinal Studies; Program Descriptions + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Informationstechnologie; Computer science lessons; Informatikunterricht; Schülerverhalten; Geschlechterkonflikt; Sommerkurs; Studieninteresse; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	The dearth of women choosing information technology (IT) careers has been identified as a national problem in the United States. Efforts have been made to combat this by educating girls at a young age about technology. Recent research demonstrates that exposure to technology is insufficient to change young girls' attitudes towards IT careers and that interventions must explicitly tie technology activities to careers. Faculty and staff of a Midwestern university modified an IT summer camp for middle school girls to include career specific programming. The camp deployed the "Girls Educating Themselves about Information Technology" (GET IT) program to garner interest among middle school girls in IT careers. This article describes the impact of this summer camp and other social influence factors on girls' interest in pursuing careers in IT, immediately after camp completion and one year in the future. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01